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Biolinguistics and Platonism: Contradictory or Consilient?
被引:0
|作者:
Watumull, Jeffrey
[1
,2
]
机构:
[1] Univ Cambridge, Dept Theoret & Appl Linguist, Sidgwick Ave, Cambridge CB3 9DA, England
[2] MIT, Dept Linguist & Philosophy, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
来源:
BIOLINGUISTICS
|
2013年
/
7卷
关键词:
biolinguistics;
discrete infinity;
ontology;
Platonism;
Turing machine;
D O I:
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中图分类号:
H [语言、文字];
学科分类号:
05 ;
摘要:
It has been argued that language is a Platonic object, and therefore that a biolinguistic ontology is incoherent. In particular, the notion of language as a system of discrete infinity has been argued to be inconsistent with the assumption of a physical (finite) basis for language. These arguments are flawed. Here I demonstrate that biolinguistics and mathematical Platonism are not mutually exclusive and contradictory, but in fact mutually reinforcing and consilient in a coherent and compelling philosophy of language. This consilience is effected by Turing's proof of the coherency of a finitary procedure generative of infinite sets.
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页码:301 / 315
页数:15
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